Benefit of absence
From Mr Ray Botha Sir: Sir Albert Robinson (Letters, 4 Decem- ber) clearly did not understand the gist of Andrew Kenny's article. He seems to be trying to claim that the credit for South Africa's relatively good economic health belongs to the English-speakers. He misses the point. Nationalist rule kept out the ANC at a time when communism was still alive and destructive in Eastern Europe. If the ANC had been in power during those years, it is more than likely that they would have wrecked the country.
I do not think that Kenny is in any way suggesting an apology to the Nationalists; he is simply recognising an unintended ben- efit that resulted in the ANC's absence from power. This is hardly an act of revisionism. Ray Botha
8 Hohenort Avenue, Constantin, South Africa
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